JAKARTA - Residents remained indoors yesterday as Indonesia sent extra soldiers to the mining town of Tembagapura in remote Irian Jaya province, after tribesmen went on a rampage near one of the world's largest copper mines, Freeport Indonesia, a unit of Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold.
Troops sent to mining town
JAKARTA - Residents remained indoors yesterday as Indonesia sent extra soldiers to the mining town of Tembagapura in remote Irian…
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